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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. Kissinger
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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